Towel cabinet



G.`R. MARSHALL AND J. A. BRUCE.

TOWEL CABmET.

APPLICATION FILE!) MAR. 22. 92.

1,41 0,068, Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE,

GORDON BOSS MARSHALL, OF HALIFAX, AND JOHN ADAMS BRUCE, OF TRURO, NO'VA SCOTIA, CANADA.

TOWEL CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented DIar. 21., 1922.

Application 'filed March 22, 1921. Serial No. 454,473

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that we GORDON Ross MAR- SHALL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of the city of Halifax, in the Province ofNova Scotia Dominion of Canada, and JOHN ADAMs BRUon, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of the town of Truro,'in the said Province of Nova Scotia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Towel Gabinets, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to improvements in towel cabinets, and the objects of the invention are to provide simple and effective means for providing towelling for immediate use in' which a clean portion of the towel will always be provided for the user and in which the soiled and wet towelling will be automatically withdrawn as the fresh towelling is drawn out.

F urther objects of the invention are to provide a device of simple and effective construction in which the fresh towelling may be readily inserted in the cabinet and the soiled towelling later withdrawn.

Further objects still are generally to improve and simplify the Construction of the device to better perform the functions required of it.

And the invention consists essentially of the improved combination of parte hereinafter described in detail in the accompanying specification and drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of au embodirnent of the invention.

dFigure 2 is a sectional elevation from the Sl e.

Figure 3 is a perspective detail of the' partn'ents being separated by a partition 10 having an opening 11 at one point in which. a .roller 12 is inounted, the tension roller .preferably havinga surface coating of rul ber or other resilient;material. u

The roll of clean towelling is mounted on a core 13 supportedon a rod' 1 1, the ends of which fit within the Slots. 15 in the side ?of compartment B. This roller is also covered onthe surface with rubber o-r likeresilient material and is supported on arod 19 suitably journalled in the side of the cabinet.

A It will be seen that .the towelling which is wound on the roll D passes, first through an inclined portion 20 then over a conveyor roller 21 at the-front of the cabinet located in an opening 22 therein, the fresh towelling hanging downwardly in a ,loop and then passing upwardly through an inclined slot 23 in the side 18 of the cabinet, then passing over the roller G and being engaged by the v roller 12, the soiled towelling collecting at the bottom of the compartment B, and being removed at intervals by opening the hinged door H, which door may Conveniently have a lattice front to enable the free circulation of air. a

Asillustrated, an opening 24 is provided in the front having a plurality of spaced in` clinecl slats 25` extending across the same. A suitable door I may be provided at the front of the compartment It will be seen that, as the towelling is drawn from the roll D it will turn the roller 12 on which it rests, turning the roller G and winding up the soiled toweling. The roller 12 is supported on a rod 26 which is mounted r in slots 27 in the side of the casing, whereby it may adjust its position between the rollers D and G;

ing indicated in dotted line in ,igure 2.

It will be seen that the present invention` prot'ides a eontinuous supply of clean towelling et the same time the Wet 'and soiled towelling is wound up and placed out of sight but in a convenient place to be ultimately removed. I

i cAs many changes could be made in ,the above Construction, and many apparently widely different enfbodiments of our invention within the scope of the elams, constructed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, itis intended that all inatter contined in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be nterpreted as illustrative and not in a limting sense; 4 What we claim as our invention is:

1. A towel eabinet comprising an upper and a lower compartment, a; partition therebetween'having an opening therein, a, towel `supply roller adjustably Inounted in the up-' per compartnient, a pressure member of inverted U-shape in the upper eompertrnent, having its depending extremities restng on the seid roller, a tension roller udjustahly mounted in thepartition ad tpted to contact continuously with the supply roller, a conveyer roller at the endof thepartition, .and e `winding roller beneath the tension roller between which and the tension roller the soiled towelling i's adapted to pass.

" 2. A towel cabinet `eonprs'ng anupper and e lower` compartmenucan apertured partition therebetween, a` slidably mounted supply roller in the upper compartment, an `edustahly mounted tension roller in the apertured partition mo erative relationship to the supply` roller, al' ront opening at thecend of the partition,` aconveyer 'roller therein, a

slot in the lower compartment, a receiving roller thereebove in operative relationship to the tension roller Whereby the soiled towcliing is conveyed back to the eabinet.

3. A towel cabinet comprisng upper and lower compartments formed With e partition having an opening therein, each of the compartments being formed with Slots through which towelling may pass, a tension roller mounted in the opening in the partition, a towel supply roller nounted in the upper conpartnent resting by gravity on` the tension roller, a receiving roller in the lower compartment below the tension roller and enguging the same, the toweihng being designed to extend froni the supply roller through the slot in the upper conpartment, then ,through the slot in the lower conpartment 'over the receiving roller.-

4. A towel cabinetcomprising upper and lower compartments formed with a partition having an opening theren, each of' the con1- partments being `formed with'slots through which towellng may pass, e tension roller mounted in the opening in the partition, a towel supply roller nounted in the upper compartment restinghy gravty on the tension roller, a receving roller in "the lower compartment below the tension roller end engaging the same, the towelling being designed to exten d from'` the supply roller through the slot in the upper compartment,

then through the slot in the lower compartp -ment over the receiving roller, and a conveyer roller mounted in the slot in the upper compertment. i

' In witness whereof we have' hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses GORDON BOSS MARSHALL. JOHN ADAMS BRUCE. i i VVitnessesi t G. C. GRIFFIN, R. H. MURRAY. 

